The Healthy Liver & Bowel Book [Paperback]

Sandra Cabot (Author), Sandra, MD Cabot (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1999

Having a healthy liver and bowel is essential if we are to live safely in an increasingly toxic world. Dr. Cabot not only offers a totally comprehensive program for detoxifying the liver and bowel, but also provides the essential follow-up for maintaining perfect function and health.

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About the Author

Sandra Cabot is the medical and executive director of the Australian National Health Advisory Service. She graduated with honors in medicine and surgery from the University of Adelaide in South Australia in 1975. As part of her extracurricular medical training, she studied herbal medicine and nutritional medicine. Dr. Cabot began her medical career in 1980 as an obstetrician-gynecologist and practiced in Sydney Australia. During the mid 1980s she spent considerable time working as a volunteer doctor at the Leyman hospital, which was the largest missionary hospital in India. Her first book, titled Women's Health, was an authoritative holistic health guide. Subsequently she wrote several more groundbreaking books including The Liver Cleansing Diet, which has sold well over two million copies worldwide. She has written twenty-two other health titles.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Celestial Arts; Internat'l edition (August 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0958613745
• ISBN-13: 978-0958613743
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,332,146 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Dr Cabot is the Medical and Executive Director of the Australian National Health Advisory Service. She graduated with honours in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Adelaide in South Australia in 1975.

Dr Cabot began her medical career in 1980 as a GP Obstetrician-Gynaecologist and practised in Sydney Australia. During the mid 1980s she spent time working as a volunteer doctor at the Leyman hospital, which was the largest missionary hospital in Northern India. Dr Cabot still has an active medical practice and is still researching liver diseases.

Sandra is the author of the Liver Cleansing Diet - best selling non-fiction book of the 90's and still selling!

She is an experienced commercial pilot and flies throughout Australia, often visiting remote areas in her Beechcraft Baron aircraft doing regular work for the Angel Flight Charity, providing free transport for patients with chronic and severe disabilities in remote Australian areas. Sandra and her aircraft have done well over 150 flights since January 2007 for the Angel Flight Charity.

Dr Cabot has conducted health seminars all over the world including lectures for numerous health organisations such as The American Liver Foundation and the Annual Hepatitis Symposium. Her seminars not only provide beneficial information for attendees' health and well being, they raise much needed funds for the charitable organisations in those remote areas.

Dr Cabot believes that the most important health issues for people today are
The control of obesity and the prevention of diabetes

Educating our children about self esteem, good diet and healthy lifestyle

Making hormone replacement therapy safe and as natural as possible

The use of specific nutritional supplements to treat and prevent diseases

Educating doctors and naturopaths so that they can work together using evidence based holistic medicine to achieve the best outcomes for patients

The effective treatment of mental and emotional illness

A supportive and well educated community where people have the confidence and knowledge to find the best health care

You can read more about Dr Cabot's work in her collection of books available here at Amazon.

Customer Reviews

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49 of 51 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Easy to read and it works !!!, August 30, 2001

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Barry Levine "recycleguy" (New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Healthy Liver & Bowel Book (Paperback)

This book is designed to be read by a person with no medical
or scientific background. It educates you about your digestive system is supposed to work, what can go wrong, what you can do about it, both preventive and if you are already ill. I have followed what I thought was a healthy diet for years, and some advice from this book, and motivation of understanding why, allowed me to fine tune, and start losing weight and feeling healthier already.
She does sell lots of other things, and she is more an marketer than a doctor, but her information is basic enough that her scientific knowledge is more than the average person needs to know. I read another book on the Liver by Melissa Palmer, and it talked down to the average person, and was a bit stiffer of a read. Dr Cabot truly caters to the public, and I highly recommend this book.

45 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Informative Reading for those interested in total Health, January 16, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Healthy Liver & Bowel Book (Paperback)

For everyone who is interested in total health, this book is excellent reading on the topics of the digestive/elimination system. The Author is well known for her health related books, and this is also well researched and written. Following some of the suggestions yields quick results (days). Many ailments dissapear, many others improve rapidly. An outstanding read ....

44 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not good for people with digestive troubles!, July 8, 2006

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S. Emch (California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Healthy Liver & Bowel Book (Paperback)

Unless your diet is presently terrible, this book probably won't help you if you have candida, celiac disease, crohn's, ulcerative colitis, IBD, or IBS. Cabot limits meats and encourages non-gluten grains. Those of us with many kinds of digestive disorders cannot digest starches and disacharides (double sugars). I followed the Liver Cleansing Diet strictly for three weeks, but the inclusion of grains, sweet potatoes, corn, and soy made my symptoms worse than they had been before I started her diet. My bloating became so bad on this diet that I looked six months pregnant and getting worse. I eliminated soy and corn but to no avail. I then switched to Elaine Gottshall's Carbohydrate Specific Diet (Breaking the Vicious Cycle) and started feeling better within two days. My belly is board flat now, my skin looks better, my mood is good, and digestion feels so much better - after only one week! I wish I had found Gottshall years ago.

I gave the Healthy Liver and Bowel book (and the Liver Cleansing Diet) three stars because the information about the liver was well documented and important to learn. The caveat here regards impaired digestion; as long as our intestines are not functioning properly we cannot absorb the nutrients our liver needs. People with digestive disorders need a dramatically different approach.

I think Cabot is a good doctor and writer, but maybe needs to broaden her horizons. Excellent liver health CAN change our lives, but until my intestines heal, my liver starves.